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Whale sanctuaries overview

Last edited 8 November 2001 at 9:00am
Japanese whalers harpooning a minke

Japanese whalers harpooning a minke whale

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Worldwide protest urges Japanese whaling fleet: "Don't go!"

Last edited 5 November 2001 at 9:00am
5 November, 2001

Today two giant eyeballs delivered a message to the Japanese Embassy in London imploring the Japanese Prime Minister not to send his whaling fleet to Antarctica to hunt minke whales, and to let Japan know the world is watching. The message delivery is part of a Greenpeace global day of action against whaling.

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British ex-whaler speaks out in support of the global whaling ban

Last edited 25 July 2001 at 8:00am
Ex-whaler John BurtonBritish ex-whaler John Burton worked on British whaling ships in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He is attending the International Whaling Commission meeting this week to relate his experiences of life onboard a factory whaling vessel, and explain why he now supports a ban on commercial whaling. You can read his story here:
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Norwegian Government to grant export licenses?

Last edited 12 January 2001 at 9:00am
A dead whale is sliced in to whalemeat

Later this month the Norwegian Government will consider whether to grant export licenses to a number of Norwegian companies which are pressing to be allowed to sell whale meat and blubber to Japan.

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Whaling captain convicted of shooting at Greenpeace

Last edited 27 November 2000 at 9:00am
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Last Thursday (23rd of November) Stavanger City Court found Ole Mindor Myklebust guilty of shooting at two Greenpeace activists during a high seas action in 1999. Luckily neither of the activists, Dave Thoenen and Ulvar Arnkvarn, was hurt during the incident, but a bullet did pierce the pontoon of the inflatable that they had placed between a whaling vessel (the Kato) and a minke whale. The whaler was sentenced to a six months conditional prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Norwegian kroner and his weapon (a high calibre Winchester rifle) has been confiscated.

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Japan's whalers head for the Southern Ocean Sanctuary once more.

Last edited 17 November 2000 at 9:00am

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Less than two months after returning from its expanded North Pacific hunt, the Japanese whaling fleet has today set off from its home port of Shimonoseki towards the Southern Ocean Sanctuary where it intends to kill a further 440 minke whales.

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Whales in competition with commercial fisheries

Last edited 4 April 2000 at 8:00am
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17 April, 2000

A modern myth based on pseudo-science

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Whales and CITES

Last edited 23 March 2000 at 9:00am
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23 March, 2001

Greenpeace briefing

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Japan pushes commercial whaling into the new Millennium

Last edited 23 March 2000 at 9:00am
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29 December, 2000

Commercial whaling has decimated whale population after whale population. The development of new technology in the first part of the twentieth century, such as the introduction in 1925 of the first factory ship, enabled the whaling nations to hunt whales in the vast seas that surround Antarctica. The same pattern of destructive over-exploitation that characterises all commercial whaling operations occurred in these Southern Oceans. It has been estimated that in the fifty years from 1925-1975 over 1.5 million whales were killed in total, the majority of these in Antarctic waters.

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UK Government concedes that oil development may harm whales and dolphins

Last edited 11 October 1999 at 8:00am
11 October, 1999

The Government has conceded that oil and gas exploration in the Britain's North East Atlantic - the Atlantic Frontier - may harm whales and dolphins. The admission came in the High Court today where Greenpeace is taking the Government to court for failing to apply wildlife protection law up to 200 nautical miles from the coast.

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